Iowa View: Spats within GOP go back decades

Would changes in nominating processes blunt bids by 'insurgents'?

10:13 PM,
Nov. 11, 2013

Written by

Steffen Schmidt

Are there any reasons for Republicans to be "alarmed by the emergence of far-right and often unpredictable tea party candidates," as Jeremy Peters and Jonathan Martin wrote in the Washington Post following last week's off-year election?

The establishment Republicans, as well as the Chamber of Commerce and businesses, are fretting over what lessons can be learned from 2013. They are looking at the defeat of Republican Kenneth Cuccinelli, who lost the governor's race in Virginia to Democrat Terry McAuliffe. Cuccinelli opposes abortion and contraception, and he compared immigration to ...